AMERICAN STRIKES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 8

AMERICAN STRIKES

DIFFERING ATTITUDES. (2.15 p.m.)‘WASHINGTON, April 29. The Secretary of Commerce (Mr Jesse Jones) to-day paid a warm tribute to the southern mine owners, at the annual meeting of the Chamber or Commerce.

“I have never mot a finer set of meji than the southern operators,” he said, adding that while many matters vital to their existence were involved they had unselfishly sacrificed these to follow the President’s lead. Owing to the necessary preliminary preparations, coal production will resume on Thursdav instead of to-morrow. Montreal reports that work holidays affecting 7000 employees of the Canadian defence industries were ordered bv the Steel Workers’ Organising Committee to-day in a protest against alleged company violations of Board of Conciliation rulings. The holidays will affect two major steel companies in addition to the National, Steel Can Corporation, Hamilton, and the Peck rolling mills, both of which are strike-bound. The 3400 employees of the Algoma steel mills (Ontario) will begin their holiday at midnight on Friday, the 3500 employees of the Dominion Steel Company will take a holiday, and workers elsewhere will follow suit. The holidays were ordered a few hours after the Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King) had banned labour debates in the House on the ground that they give this dispute significance in the enemy’s eyes. See “President’s Triumph”—Page 7.